Good read from the WSJ: The Anti-Vaccination Epidemic

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3. I accept that children of anti-vax parents will die

It sad, but the death of unvaccinated children is probably the only thing that will stop the anti-vax movement. Logic and science won't do it, the antivax people are just too wrapped up in themselves.

Once people start seeing unvaccinated children contracting and dying from preventable diseases, I think vaccine use will quickly go back to levels where these diseases won't be so easily spread.

In the meantime, the public health focus should be on encouraging sensible parents to protect themselves and their children by getting vaccinated.

Also, parents of children with conditions that make them unable to tolerate vaccines need to sort out their best options while the re-emerging preventable diseases become more prevalent, at least temporarily.

I wish it weren't so, but that seems to be where our herd is headed.